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Windows 7: Moving my documents folder to another hard drive question

This might be a bit of a dumb question but I just want to check is it safe to directly cut and paste the my favorites, documents, pictures, music and video folders to another hard drive on my PC or I should do them manually through properties of each folder. Currently I'm using windows 7.

Moving my documents folder to another hard drive question

Moving "My Documents" folder, problem with Firefox/Google ChromeHello,
I've been having some problems with my computer since some weeks ago, I decided to change my Document folder from C to D drive since I had games taking too much place into it. I created a new folder in my D drive and moved the folder there by using the move method of the folder.
Since...

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Restoring default location of "My Documents" after moving folder?Hello all,
Let me start of by saying that I have followed this tutorial: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html and have not had results.
Additionally, I have 2 hard drives: An SSD solely for the Windows OS and an HDD for everything else.
I'm...

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Moving 'My Documents' folder; strange resultsI recently installed a SSD as the boot drive and made the original HDD a data drive. I wanted to move the data intensive user folders over to the data drive.
I go to C:\users\myName, select My Documents and change location to D:\My Documents.
Before moving, My Documents contains 2535 files,...

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Why User folder shows My Documents but folder location is Documents?Q1. When I look at the folders in C:\Users\User-Name , I can see a folder. I double click on and the location now is C:\Users\User-Name\Documents , why is the folder name different from the exact folder location? (I notice all other folders that have the word "My" has the same situation)
Q2....

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Moving my documents renames target folder itself!Hi,
I want to move the My Documents onto a separate partition, which appears very straightforward in 7.
However, the first time I called the partition (as that was all it was going to be used for) 'My Documents' and just wanted to move the sub folders there.
Unfortunately, having moved...